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WILLIAM TODD JONES, 


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JONES’S REPLT. 


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EDITOR’S PREFACE. 


T HOUGH a re-publication of 
the following Tra&s, which have been given 
to the Public, without referve, requires no 
apology, the refpedt we entertain for our 
Readers, demands an explanation of the 
motives which induced it. Mr. Jones & 
Letters, complaining of the hardships of his 
cafe, however imperfect in compofition, con¬ 
tained charges of very ferious feverity againft 
the Government which iftued, and the agents 
who executed the orders for his apprehenfion. 
Were thefe Letters to be read by none but the 
perfons acquainted with the tranfa&ion, any 
notice or animadverfion would have been fu- 
perfluous. Devoidofthat infinuatingart which 

facinates the fenfes, and can even make “ the 

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“ worfe appear the better caufe,” they could 
have vilified none but their Author. But to 
perfons unacquainted with the circumftances, 
alfertions, however made, will carry weight, 
if uncontradidted. It was therefore deemed 
expedient to expofe, in a fhoit addrefs to the 

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Public, the falfity of thofe aflertions, and 
the futility of the compofition. This was 
happily executed by a Writer, whofe ani- 
madverfions appeared in The Cork Advertifer , 
with the fignature of Vindex. The refult 
was a very natural endeavour of Mr. Jones’s 
Friends, to withdraw from the public eye a 
compofition unable to bear the teft of criti¬ 
cal examination, and which they knew would 
be read only to be ridiculed. This very cir- 

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^jmftance has, however, as might be expedh- 
• ed, only ferved to heighten the curiofity of the 
Public, who have alfo called for a re-pub- 
lication of Vindex’s ftridures, which have 
been hitherto confined to the readers of a 
fingle newfpaper. We therefore venture to 
hope, that we fhall perform an acceptable 
fervice to the Public, as well as to many 
foliciting Friends, by this Publication, to 
which we have added Mr. Jones’s Reply to 
Vindex, by no means the leaft curious part 
of the Work. If the animadverfions of Mr. 
Jones’s Detector required fupport and con¬ 
firmation, they would be abundantly found 
in the Reply, a compofition fuch as has fel- 
dem appeared in the annals of Centreverfy. 
It may be divided into two parts, the intel¬ 
ligible, 


ligible , and the unintelligible , both of which 
fet his antagonift at defiance on the plaineft 
grounds.—What he does not underftand, he 
cannot anfwer—and what he does under- 
ftand, finds a fufficient anfwer in its own 
futility.—We have fubjoined a few Anno¬ 
tations, fuggefted by a Friend, which, tho 5 
not very necefTary, may, perhaps, be not 
altogether uninterefting. 



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TO 


THE EARL OF MOIRA, 

AND THE 

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HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX. 

My Lord and Sir, 

I intreat your perujal of the following Detail 

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of my OppreJJion: and , also, your Support in Aid 
of my Prayer of Relief in form of Petition 
to the Parliament of His Majefy s United 
Kingdoms . This Publication is effeiitial in a 
jufifiable Vindication of my Character. 

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/ the Honor to be, 

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With very high Co?fderation, 

My Lord, and Sir, 

Tour mof obedient Servant, 

WILLIAM TODD JONES . 

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CASE 

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WILLIAM TODD JONES, ESC^ 

A PRISONER 

IN THE COUNTY GAOL OF CORK, 

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UPON A 

CHARGE OF HIGH-TREASON, . 

IN THREE LEJTERS, 

Written to and received by 

The Right Honourable William Wickham ? 

SECRETARY 

To the Lord Lieutenant. 







CASE 


O F 


WILLIAM TODD JONES, Esq, 


&c. &c, &c. 


TO THE 


RIGHT KON. WILLIAM WICKHAM, 
CASTLE OF DUBLIN. 


SIR > 


Gaol of Cork , 051 . 15, 1803, 


I HAVE the honour of receiving your enciofure of Mr, 
Saurin’s Letter, a very regarded, and very early fchooi 
Friend, and alfo a Billet , e 7 iclofed with it in the fame cover , 
directed to> and franked by Mr. Wickham — <e The 
Gaoler of Cork,” faying, Mr, Wickham defires that the 
enclofed may be delivered to Mr. Todd Jones.—October ii, 
380 j.-r-Cafle. " • ■■■” In conlequence of which, Blat¬ 
tered as my health is by eleven weeks clofe imprifonment, 
at my time of life, and privation of my peculiarly labo¬ 
rious habits of exercife, I trouble, you, Sir, with this 
tedious Letter and detail. 

Mr. Saurin’s obliging communication thus regularly 
introduced, propofes to me a Difcharge from the op* 
preflion I have thus long fuBained, upon Cqmpoftion , viz. 

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■—that I Jljould fecrelly , and as if of my own accord , exile 
myJelf to England which Terms were to be an invio¬ 
lable SECRET. 

The propofal is a full acquittal of any imputed offence— -but 
jmy hitherto unimpeached good Name has been attempted 
to be fligmatized, [the Warrant of the Mayor of Cork 
for my Committal, of which I have a Copy, fpecifying 
my offence to be High Treafon] and opportunity was 
thus afforded, and has been tenacioufly embraced, for the 
?noJl lying and atrocious Newfpaper detra&ions regarding 
me, in both Kingdoms. My perfon has been affaulted in 
my bed at daybreak, in the refpe&able manfion of a vene¬ 
rable friend, Doctor Calanan, near Clonakiity, and I 
have been conveyed very ftrongly guarded by Troops, to 
an ignominious common Gaol: in reaching which, at the 
moderate diftance of twenty-two miles, I have been wan¬ 
tonly exhibited, like an already corns idled Felon , for two 
long fummer days, the firft and fecond of Auguft, in Orange 
Triumph , to the gaze of a very crowded Bandon rabble ; 
and thence paraded, with like oftentation, through all the 
flreets of Cork , as if in progrefs to Execution.—My vene¬ 
rable friend and hofpitable entertainer, Dodtor Calanan, a 
Phyfician of the age of feventy, with his only fon, on my 
account , have been dragged from the fame manfion to Pri- 
fon, after a fimilar triumphant expofure of two days, to 
gazing multitudes, in the fhort diftance of twenty-two 
miles: a Man eminent for a long profelfional life, dedi- 
cajcd to the Poor, and to the Peafants, whofe tears kept 
pace with his progrefs. The Roman policy was certainly 
fliallow, which hazarded a triumph upon the carcafs of 
Cato—Doctor Calanan, who is a Catholic, was ai refled by 
Lieutenant Douglafs, abetted by his two near neighbours, 
Orangemen, Thomas Hungerford, Efq. of “ The 

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and the Rev. William Stewart, Curate and Magiftrate, 
in his ftck chamber, which he had never left for fever al weeks 
from .a fevere fit of gout ; and with his only fon, was 
brutally torn away from his home, where there remained 
four young Ladies, his Daughters, expofed, thus totally 
unprote&ed, to any eventual excefles of an Orange Fac¬ 
tion, drunken with momentary power:—excefles too 
well yet remembered in Ireland, when there was no 
humane Hardwicke to temper, and to reflrain them. 

The Rev. Philip Welfh, Roman Catholic Clergy¬ 
man, of Barryroe, has been in like manner —upon my account 
—aflfaulted in his dwelling, like a criminal, carried away 
from his pariftuoners, and lodged in the County Gaol—» 
a man of very confiderable learning, of a manly mind, and 
of a conduct peculiarly unexceptionable. 

My urgent entreaties for an Examination, a Difmiflaf, 
or a Trial, have been refufed by General Myers, from the 
period of my committal—and my name was, by his ex- 
prefs orders, omitted upon the Gaol Kalendar, returned 
to the Judges at the lafl: County Aflizes, thereby inten¬ 
tionally precluding me from a Conftitutional Trial at Bar. 

After a fhort lapfe of time, the Mr. Calanans’ and Mr. 
Weilh were difeharged, without Examination, without 
Trial, while I was, and am forcibly detained. 

The Meflrs. Drinan’s, two Gentlemen of great mer*- 
cantile fortune and influence in Cork, prifoners with me, 
have upwards of three weeks fince, been liberated without 
any Examination or Trial, while I was, and am forcibly 
detained: the equity of which needs no comment. 

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Sifc.—I am an Hereditary Protedant of the Edablifhed 
Church, and have fat for feverai years in His Majedy’s 
Parliament of Ireland; but from my youth up have dedi¬ 
cated my Literary and Parliamentary Labours towards an 
amelioration of the miferable condition of an immense 
majority of His Majedy’s Irifh Subjects, by-a relaxa¬ 
tion, or repeal of thofe merciless Laws, denominated 
The Penal Code \—an almod total repeal of which. His 
Majedy has fince bellowed ; there, therefore, I could not 
have been erroneous—but private interests—in¬ 
dividual, EXORBITANT CLAIMS-INVETERATE 

HABITS OF TYRANNY, AND THE NATURAL RELUC¬ 
TANCE OF MAN, TO PART WITH LONG ASSUMED, 

however, pernicious power —fubfequently crea¬ 
ted a Fa&ion which confolidated itfelf under the name of 
Orange, and to which fa&ion this Repeal, and the Ad¬ 
vocates for it, have been, and are peculiarly obnoxious. 

THIS IS MY CRIME—and it has long marked me 
out a victim in Books, and in Newfpapers, to the ven¬ 
geance of this Faction, whenever public Calamity, as at 
prefent, fhould fufpend the Conftitulion, and delegate 
temporary great powers to Magidrates, and to Corpora¬ 
tions—and I fpeak it. Sir, to you, without mingling Self 
(at the prefent moment) and as a truth well defervirig the 
feriocs confideration of any liifh Minider, that I am well 
perfuaded, until that Orange Conspiracy againd the 
feelings , the eafe, the quiet , and the honejl indujlry of the Body 
of the Catholics of this Hland, and in an efpecia! degree, of 
the County Armagh, and the North, be fut down, by 
the Authority of Statute, or of Royal Proclamation, there 
never will be fecurity to the Government of the Country 
againd local Infurrc£tior.—No later ago than lad July, 
the Battle of the Boyne was fought over again, on the 

Band on 


Bandon River ; the Irifh were again routed, and the Haiti, 
who had fallen One Hundred and Thirteen Years before, 
'were Jlain again ; to the Edification of the Proteftant Youth, 
thereby inculcating mutual 1 ' affeftion—and to the great 
Encouragement to Loyalty in the Catholic Riling Genera¬ 
tion, for fear they ftiould, perhaps, in time, have forgotten 
that their Ancellors loft their Lives and Lands on that Day 
—But to inculcate political Harmony and Union is nei¬ 
ther the principle, nor the Practice of Orangemen : that 
dangerous Confpiracy, whofe Principles oj aflion are con¬ 
cealed by a folemn engagement , eftablilhing thereby in Ire- 
land an “ Imperium in Imperio ” ratified by a political Secret 
upon Oath ; an inner Cabinet from that of the Sovereign’s 3 
which no wife Government ought to countenance, or to 
tolerate 


* Almoft while I was writing to the Secretary of the Lord 
Lieutenant, the following Paragraph appeared in The Cork 

Advertifer , upon the 25th of Oflober:— 

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“To-Morrow, being the Anniverfary of the'Horrid Popijh 

t« Infurrettion and Majfacre , fecretly contrived and extenfively 
u perpetrated in the Year 1641, will be obferved, as ufual, by 
« Demonftrations of Joy and Gratitude for the Signal Prefer- 

vation of the Proteftant Government of this Country, from 
u the general Deftru&ion intended upon that Occafion." 

A Paragraph which, whether contemplating the Loyalty, or 
the Numbers of the Catholics of the County of Cork; and 
under the circumilances of this awful period, appears didlated 
by a Fanaticifm the moft Inveterate, aad aPerfecuting Frenzy 
the moll implacable. It is an impertinent, and an unpro¬ 
fitable recurrence to> and revival of an Hijloriccd Document 
exceedingly controverted •, but a Difcuffon, and Controverfy, 
which no wife Emdiftinaajv, or amiable Irifliman, ought ever 
wilh. to be revived. 


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Once more, Sir, I folicit my Freedom—I have, been 
a clofe Prifoner for eleven weeks in a County Gaol , without 
even having been fhown my Indi&ment, been told the 
names of my Aceufers, or been made acquainted with my 
mifdemeanor, fuch. Sir, are aggravating circurhftances of 
my arrcfl: and fuch the heads of my Petition to the Im¬ 
perial Parliament which prays: 

u To be forthwith, fummoned to their Bar, to anfwer 
iC All ,§ ueflions upon Oath touching my concern in, or 
“ knowledge of the Rebellion of 1798, and of the recent 
one at Dublin : and a!fo touching my concern with, or 
“ knowledge of the French Nation, French Individuals, 
“ or Irifh Individuals refiding in France ; or with any 
64 Irifhmen who were engaged, or who are engaged in 
<e what is under flood by the Law, Pra£tices of Treafon— 
6e and praying that General Myers, the Mayor and She- 
u riffs of Cork, the Reverend William Stewart, and all 
ci Others concerned in my detainer , may be fummoned at 
fame time to their Bar.” 

Now, Sir, (landing on fuch fecurity of innocence , in de¬ 
fiance of open violence, fecret fubordination of perjury, 
and of the whole Tribe of Informers—a Tribe and Trade 
well known, and very profitable in the. County of Cork — 
can any Man imagine that I will foil my reputation, fo 
early obtained, and r o well worn, by a Guilt-acknowledg¬ 
ing flight: thereby not only criminating myfelf, but my 
three friends, through whofe indignities I have been fo 
additionally wounded. 

No, Sir, not by any completion in the Court of Honour 
—Honour is pellucid, and admits not of fhades, or gra¬ 
dations—no man in the Empire can fully my chara6fer, 

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except one, and that would be myfelf—I will not be 
that man—I cannot enter into bail, or annex my name 
to any Deed whatever, under the ignominious circum- 
ftances of an arreft however unwarranted, which would 
be an implication of a fufpicion well founded in my Skulk¬ 
ing Enemies .—I cannot depart from my prefent bondage 
more fhackled than when thruft into it; but I can return 
to my Cell, and endeavour, with the aid of fome little 
conflitutional fortitude, to fuftain an ill-advifed, a rath, 
and an invidious Captivity. 

I have the Honour to be, &x. &c. 

WILLIAM TODD JONES. 

Right Honourable William Wickham , 

Cajlle of Dublin» 

TO THE 

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM WICKHAM, 
CASTLE OF DUBLIN. 

SIR, Co . Gaol, near Cork, Oil. 20, 1805. 

X DO myfelf the honour to acquaint you, that on Tuef- 
day the 18 th, I forwarded from hence a Letter to Major- 
General Campbell, Cork, by defire of my Counfel, and 
a'fo a Duplicate of it to Mr. Murphy, Chief Gaoler, 
entreating to know from them, et Why I was prevented 
quitting the Prifon and’departing for my home?” To 
which I this morning received the following verbal reply, 
from General Campbell, by his Brigade-Major, Captain 
Royals—** General Campbell is not charged with Mr, 

Tones. 

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Tones, but found him here , and, therefore, cannot releafe 
him without an Order from the Cafile.” The conclufion 
from which, is, that on fuch vague unknown committal, 
1 may be confined, if my life fliould linger out fo long, 
for twenty years l ——Gracious God, Sir, is it Turkey, 
or is it a portion of the Britifh Empire in which I 
write, and in which I fuftain twelve weeks imprifonment, 
'without one document of charge of any kind brought againji me ! f 
In which my health is fported with from General to Ge¬ 
neral, in a Garrifon prifon, at the infiance of any unfub- 
Jiantiated vulgar whifper, which may be dilated by malig¬ 
nity or folly ; two qualities which feem to combat for the 
human mind, in the prefent predominant Faflicn of the 
County of Cork. 

Let me, Sir, be put to the Tefi of a Trial, found Go¬ 
vernment and fober Rule, which marks the Adminifira- 
tion you a6fc with, is not ufually fo coy, of bringing to 
Trial a Prifoner who deports himfelf as I do; or, as be¬ 
coming the Earl of Hardwicke and Mr. Wickham. Let 
the return of Pofi bring an order for the gates lo be open¬ 
ed, and for the candid apologetic declaration to be made, 
that the Diforders of the Capital had compelled, at the 
irrigation of prejudice and vulgarity here, either of the 
great world or the fmall, a violation for twelve weeks of the 
liberty of an honefi Man in my perfon. You will con¬ 
clude that I am irritated, and with jufiice; I certainly 
fliould not be that honefi Man if I were not. But I am 
equally defirous of appearing what I really am, Mr. Wick¬ 
ham’s 

Refpe&ful and moft Obedient Servant, 

WILLIAM TODD JONES- 
Mr. Jones's Second Letter 
to Mr. Wickham, 


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TO THE 

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM WICKHAM, 
CASTLE OF DUBLIN. 

SIRt . 'Gad, near Cork, Oel. 24, 1803. 

X HAVE tliis day been honoured with your Reply to 
my Letter of the Fifteenth, by Major-General Camp¬ 
bell in perfon, acquainting me that you had been pleated 
to lay that Letter before the Lord Lieutenant, and that 
his Excellency had been advifed to continue my imprifonment ; 
and, alfo, that I fliould receive every indulgence (for which 
I made no fort of application) that was confident with my 
fafe keeping : this letter was exprefled and repeated to me 
in the mod handforfie, mod Toothing manner by General 
Campbell. 

Your Letter, Sir, permit me to obferve, evidently ac¬ 
knowledges the delegated authority of Mr. Saurin’s pro- 
pofal of Exile, a fort of Grecian Oftracifm, which I was 
yet to learn was a portion of the Englifh Code;—as it 
equally renders valid the conclufion I drew from it in my 
firft Letter, that t( The propojal is a full acquittal of any im¬ 
putation of crime tomeF—\t alfo implies, that, notwithftand- 
ing that acquittal, a latent , undefinedfufpicion is harboured 
againfl me, which will not bear the probe of Enquiry : and 
that a secret power long malignant to me, and net 
daring to confront me honeftly before the Country, though 
feen but dimly, Hands revealed in its operation— u That 
Power I pronounce to be the Orange Faflion of the County 
and City cf Cork.” 

The Cobweb kindnefs of “ Indulgence,” can have no 
operation here: this Piifon has admitted TO me no In- 

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dulgence beyond light, fire, and the reflections of folitude: 
the Secret Power which rules Cork, took ample care that 
it fhould not :■—the only Friend who did afk for a Pafs to 
vifit me, was refufed it, except in the prefence of the She¬ 
riffs ; and the communication of this mockery of (i Indul¬ 
gence” was made to me by Mr. Sheriff Dunfcombe him- 
felf: I, who the Sheriffs well knew was arrefled, and 
imprifoned, without an Indi&ment, an Examination 
lodged, or any authenticated charge being againfl: me 
I, whom they themfelves (with peculiar politenefs, and 
civilty, for 1 owe much of acknowledgement perfonally, to Mr. 
Dunfcombe, and to Mr. Cole) had removed from the 
City Gaol, the firft Prifon I was lodged in, to this diftant 
one out of Town, totally unguarded but by themfelves. 

Another branch of this almoft only family [Dcdfor 
Calanan] with whom I am honoured by a particular 
friendfhip, Mr. Goold, hazarding a vifit of but a fevj 
minutes to me, hearing that I had been ill, under the very 
harmlefs, but, perhaps, injudicious requeft of feeing ano¬ 
ther Gentleman, (for he juflly concluded that to name me, 
was denial) was immediately upon his return home, 
haraffed by an arreft at his aged father’s dcor, twenty- 
two miles diflant, was brought back under an cilentatious 
efcort of Horfe to Bandon, and confined there one night, 
and thence, next day, to Cork.—This young .Gentleman 
was thrufi into the common Mainguard-Roem, and con¬ 
fined there the whole of a fecond night.—He was next 
day committed clofe prifoner to a folitary Cel! in the remote 
extreme of this Gaol which 1 occupy, with a peremptory 
order not to exchange words with any man confned here 
and this order was fubfhntuliy enforced by the unceafing 
attendance of a Centinel with a naked bayonet:—thus ef- 

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crrted, I m"t him in the PrifcmCourt, he did net dare 


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to addrels himfelf to me, nor did I hazard his affafiitia- 
tion. 

This unparalleled Tyranny, this audacious infringement 
of the Liberty of the Subje£t, this confpicuous abufe of 
Military Power, and of the Sufpenfion of the Habeas 
Corpus, extended to the length of Sixteen Days 9 and then, 
forfooth, the young Gentleman, unexamined, unimpeach- 
cd, of any thing but the crime of being a Catholic , and 
of being attached to me, was, as a mighty boon, libe¬ 
rated, and bellowed upon his Father.—No doubt this mild 
procedure, together with my three months imprifonment, 
are intended as illudrations how effe&ually TheConJlitution 
can fecure the Liberty of the Subjeft, at this particular pe¬ 
riod of the Empire, when its validity in that refpe& had 
been fomeiimes audacioufly quedionedand no doubt 
will have an admirable effe£t in inducing plain, innocent 
People at large, to double their diligence againft its ene¬ 
mies, and to rally around its Standard. Therefore, Sir, 
regarding me, and (C Indulgence,” he mud be a refolute 
man, and endowed with no ordinary defiance of peril, 
who, after fuch an infliction of punifhment for an offence 
fo venial, would hazard to demand a pafs to vifit me, in 
any other chara&er than as a Tiadefman or a Bailiff. Per¬ 
mit me alfo to add, that the man, or men acceffary to 
thefe fixteen days folitary confinement of my friend Mr. 
Goold, ought to be broken by the Lord Lieutenant, and 
declared incapable of ferving the State. I have a pro¬ 
phetic faith that we fhall hear no more of Afts of Indem~ 
nity to fcreen Qppieflions: that Power is now, thanks be 
to God, in other hands than with a former nest 


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OF HORNETS. 


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A Prifoner, Sir, confcrous of the flighted attachment 
of guiit to his conduct, is not ufuariy in the habit of 
feeling himfelf fc keenly injured, and of ufing language 
fo dictatorial: but I know the Conffitution, its protec¬ 
tion, and the boundary of my powers of remonfirance, 
and expoflulation.— My Spirit is right Englifh, unbroken 
by Pitched Cap , Strangling, or the Whip —I know my Per - 
final Rights , under the Conflitution, and I demand them 
—unlefs that Conflitution, like Sir John Cutler’s Hofe, 
be fo pieced, and darned, as to pafs for the fame, without 
containing one thread cf the original flocking. 

I am well aware, Sir, of my fituation : I am aware 
that my Orange arrej], equally ill-advifed and malignant, 
lias embarrafled its Authors, and that to get handfomely 
lid of me is fome difficulty ; to have induced me, there¬ 
fore, even tacitly to countenance an implied mifdemcanor in 
my conduct ; would have to a certain degree obviated 
that difficulty—but not being that man, finely the in¬ 
decency muff every hour increafe of having declared me 
innocent, (for who would fend a Traitor unbridled into 
England) yet continuing my bondage : and though 
Orangemen have no reputation to lofe, Mr. Wickham’s 
Adminiftraticn has a very great deal. 

Permit me. Sir, again, to reiterate my entreaty for an 
Examination, or a Difcharge.—I am not compounded. 
Sir, of futh fiimfy materials of mind, at being deprived 
of the Confolations of Friendfhip, or of being locked up 
from all Human Society from eight to eight, can ferrate 
upon my fortitude, fo as to induce a change in my deter¬ 
mination, however it may already have impaired my Ccn- 
ilitution, ftr my fleep is gone, from want cf habitual cx- 
creife, and jny digeificn nearly Appended.——It is rot 

“ Indulgence,” 



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if Indulgence,” Sir, which I meditate upon, it is my Cha - 

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rafier, now for Three Months expofed to unrefuted oblo¬ 
quy—It is my Liberty , Sir, which I pray for, a Trial , 
Liberation , or Death ! 

I have the Honour to be, Sir, 

&c. &c. &rc. 

WILLIAM TODD JONES. 

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FIND IC AT 10 N 

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MR. W. T. JONES, 

JVhofe Character has lately fujfered by a Publication falfely 

imputed to him . 

A SMALL Pamphlet has been juft put into my hands, 
purporting to be t( A Cafe of Mr. W. T. Jones, now a 
prifoner in the gaol of Cork, on a charge of high treafon, 

in three Letters, to the Right H-ble W. Wickham* 

Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant.” 'Ihefe Letters, to 
which is prefixed a prefatory addrefs to Lord Moira, and 
Mr. Fox, no doubt, for the purpofe of adding plaufibility 
to the impofition, carry with them, on the firft view, very 
fp°/:-’ous fymptoms of authenticity. The names of perfons 
and places are given at full length, and the affertions are 

made 



[ 24 3 

made with a degree cf bold and peremptory decifion, fuf- 
ficiently chara£teriftic of the imputed Author. 1 had not, 
however, proceeded far in the perufal, before the cloven 
foot appeared, and-1 became perfe&Iy convinced that it 
was a fpurious performance, the haHy effort of injudicious 
friendfhip; the malicious track of an enemy, to render that 
Gentleman Hill lower in the public eflimation than he Hands 
at prefent \ or the catch-penny contrivance of fome hungry 
Printer. It is, in truth, very hard that a culprit cannot go 
to the gallows, or a Gentleman to the gaol, but fome two¬ 
penny Pamphleteer muH flarf up with an account of the 
dying fpeech of the one, and the lamentable cafe of the 
other, though he is indebted for both, not to truth and 
reality, but to the fidlions of his own brain, and is gene* 
rally more felicitous about the circulation of his work 
than the character of his heroes. Nay, I doubt, if any 
untoward defliny had cut fhort the thread, or if youpleafe, 
the rope of this great man’s life, we fhould have heard 
the ballad-fingers crying his exit, with the termination too 
ufual in this country—/ die cn unworthy Member of the 
Church of Rome. 

The Pamphlet under confederation bears fuch internal 
evidence of iilegitim icy, that there will be little difficulty 
in Hiewing it to be a fabrication.—This, I undertake to do, 
cn the following grounds; firH, the falfification of the 
fa<Sts 5 —fecondly, the poverty and puerility of the flyle, 
—and thirdly, the mifehieveus and malignant tendency of 
the work itfelf. If I can convidt the Writer of thefe im- 
putations, no doubt will remain, at leaH with Mr. Jones’s 
friends , cf the fpurioufnefs of the Publication. They 
who enjoy his friendfhip, and are acquainted with his 
meiits, muH believe him incapable of wilfully miflating 
fa£ts which lie could not but know . They who look up to 

him 


[ *S ] 

him as a man of talents and literary acquirement, muft 
believe him incapable of writing in defpite of fenfe and 
grammar, and fuch as have been taught to regard him as 
the Champion of toleration, liberal principle, and national 
union, muft believe him incapable of exhibiting himfelf 
in the vile chara&er of an Incendiary and Separatift—all 
which opinions muft be retraced, if the Letters in quef- 

tion are the work of Mr. Jones. ^ 

- * • / 

With refpedt to fa&s, the malicious compiler of this 
contemptible fabrication, betrays a degree of ignorance, 
that will hardly allow me to fuppofe he had ever been ia 
this County. He muft, therefore, have received his know¬ 
ledge from imperfeS rumour, unlefs we fuppofe him to 
have a&ed from fuch an inveterate enmity to truth, as is 
hardly reconcilable with the loweft degree of human frailty. 
We have no doubt, frequent reafon to exclaim with old 
Jack FalftafF, Lord, Lord, how this world is given 
to lying ? Many tell lies for joke, and many for gain, but 
to lie without either end in view, is the very defpcra- 
tion of Profligacy ! 

The arreft of Mr. Jones, at Clonakilty, is thus dated : 
—“ My perfon has been ajfaulted in my bed at day-break, 
“ and I have been conveyed, very ftrongly guarded by 
“ troops, to an ignominous common gaol, in reaching 
“ which, at the moderate diftance of twenty-two mife% 
<c I have been wantonly exhibited like an already convified 
u Felon , for two long fummer days, the firft and fecond 
4t of Auguft, in Orange triumph, to the gaze of a very 
4( crowded Bandon rabble, and thence paraded, with like 
“ oftentation, through all the ftreets of Cork, as if in pro- 
e< grefs to execution. My venerable friend and hofp stable 
“ entertainer; Doctor Calanan, a Phyfician, of the age of 

Ci (even?y 

.w *■ * 


[ 26 3 

<f fevenly y with his only Ton, have been dragged from the 
“ fame manfion to prifon, a man eminent for a long pro- 
“ feffional life, dedicated to the poor and to the peafants, 
ts whofe teais kept pace with his progrefs. The Roman 
u policy was certainly (hallow, which hazarded a triumph 
fC upon the carcafe of Cato.—Do&or CaJanan, who is a 
“ Catholic, was arrefted by Lieut. Douglafs, abbetted by 
“ his two near neighbours, Orangemen, Thomas Hunger* 
“ ford, Efq. of the Ifland, and the Rev. W. Stewart, 
“ Curate and Magiftrate, in his Tick chamber, which he 

had never left for feveral weeks, from a fevere fit of the 
cc gout, and with his only fon, was brutally torn away from 
“ his home, where there remained four young Ladies, his 
“ daughters, expofed, thus unprote&ed, to any eventual 
ct excefles of an Orange Faction, drunken with momen* 
C( tary power. The Rev. Philip Welfh, Roman Catholic 
“ Clergyman of Barryroe, has been in like manner, upon 
“ my account, ajfaulted in his dwelling, like a criminal, 
ts carried aw'ay from his Parifhioners, and lodged in the 
“ county gaol.” 

Perhaps it wmuld be difficult in any work, ancient or 
modern, not excepting the hiflory of the renowned 
Baron Munchaufen, to find fo much fdfhcod, malignity, 
and mifreprefentation in fo fhort a compafs. IJad the ac¬ 
count been given in a detached flatenient, without the 
fpecification of names or places, the Writer might defy 
any of the perfons concerned in the bufinefs to find an 
analogy between the reality and the reprefentation. It is 
true, Mr. Jones was apprehended at the Hotife of Dr. 
Calanan, by virtue of an order from Government, and 
conveyed under a military efcott to Cork.—It is true that 
Doctor Calanan, and Mr. Welfh, were taken up and con¬ 
veyed to Cork, i;i a few days after the arrefl of Mr. 

Jones, 


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Jones, but it is very far indeed from the truth to fay, that 
they fuffered any rudenefs, brutality, or ill-treatment. 
The condu£t of the Gentlemen who were dire&ed to 
make the caption was particularly delicate and accommoda¬ 
ting to the two latter, and the arretl of Mr. Jones, under 
a charge of fuch moment, was accompanied with every 
circumftance of kind and reafonable accommodation* 
He was called up, it is true, at an early hour, and awaken¬ 
ed poflibly from a pleafing dream of future greatnefs 5 
but the unhallowed touch of Conftable, profaned not his 
bed-chamber, until he had drefled, fliavea and declared' 
himfelf ready to obey the order, of which, by the bye, he 
feemed to (land in fome expectation. It fhould feem from 
the latter ftatement, that Air. Stewart was particularly 
obnoxious to Mr. Jones, and that their fhort intercourfe 
could not fail to be marked by fomc traits of irritation and 
ill-humour,—Nothing, however, can be farther from truth 
—Mr. Stewart was polite and accomodating, and the de¬ 
portment of Mr. Jones was temperate, collected, and pro¬ 
per. Upon Mr. Stewart’s beginning to apologize for the 
unpleafant part he was necefhtated to a£t—the othep inter¬ 
rupted him by obferving, that no apology was necefiary 
—he was commendable in doing his duty—there was no¬ 
thing extraordinary in fuch a circumltance at fuch a time 
—Government were judifted in ufrng droag meafures in 
critical times. Surely he who could ufe fuch language in 
Augurt, can hardly be fuppofed to have written fu;h Let¬ 
ters in O6tober 1 * ' 

f ' ; f 'j ' 

- There are other miilakes of name, age and condition,, 
llil! Iefs reconcileable, with the knowledge which Mr. Jones 
mud have of the individuals with whom he has s o long 
lived in habits of intimacy.—Dr. Calanah is rep re fen ted 
as a venerable old man of three (core years and ten, and 

; KT the 


% V 

C 28 j , 

the young man who accompanied him to Cork, is twice 
faid to be his only Ton, though the fad is, that the Do&or 
has two Tons, and is but little older than Mr. Jones himfelf. 
In commendation of the Dodor’s profeflional (kill, and 
charitable attention to his poor neighbours, I do moil cor¬ 
dially Join; but were I to chufe a difcriminating epitaph 
for aperfon whofe adivity and animation would not difcre- 
dit the age of thirty, it certainly fhould not be the word 
venerable* The Do&or’s fpeedy return to the bofom 
of his family gave general fatisfadion ; and though the 
circumflance which occafioned the reparation, was of no 
pleafant nature, it may not be without its advantages. 
Hofpitality, always amiable in the abilrad, may fome- 
times be injurious in the exercife, unlefs regulated by ra¬ 
tional preference and prudent feledion. 

In the paflageabove quoted, Mr. WeHh is fpecified by 
the name of Philip, though it is hardly to be fuppofed, 
that fo frequent a vifitant as Mr. Jones, fhould not know 
that it was David. Mr. Welfh is a fenfibie man, and an 
agreeable companion, in whofe company Mr. Jones paf- 
fed many pleafant days, and whom, it is probable, during 

the hour of feftive exhilaration he had often addrefled bv 

. «* 

the familiar appellation of little Davy. 

With equal ignorance or contempt of truth, Mr. Stew¬ 
art is pronounced an Orangeman, and in mentioning Mr. 
Thomas Hungeiford, he takes pains to fpecify, as if he 
was determined to run no rifk of being right, that he is 
of the Ifland. Now the truth is, that Mr. Stewart, who 
poficffes as much zeal and loyalty as any man, but tempered 
with too much prudence to embrace any party diftin&ion, 
is not an Orangeman; and as for Mr. Thomas Hungerford 
of the Ifland, he is to be found only in the Writer’s fancy. 

Having; 


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Having difpatched the argument founded upon fa&s, let 
us proceed to confider the internal evidence of fabrication* 
founded on barbarifm and puerility of ftyle. In the 
general treedom of epiftolary writing, little faults and in¬ 
accuracies may certainly be expe&ed, and claim the in¬ 
dulgence of critical judgment. But in Letters written 
with a view to publication, and addrefled to one of the 
firft chara&ers in the land, and that on a fubjeft of fuch 
high moment, as the recovery of the Writer’s liberty, we 
might not unreafonably expert perfpicuity, arrangement, 
energy of didtion, and purity of ftyle. Something indeed 
like energy of didtion may be found, when the Writer fteps 
out of his way to inflame and to revile—-but every other 
part is equally dertitute of fpirit, elegance and perfpicuity.' 
One folitary attempt at rhetorical embellifhment will be 
found in the paflage above quoted. After a pathetic 
reprefentation of his aged hofl’s captivity, he burfls into 
the following appofite and happy allufion : “ The Roman 
policy was certainly fhallow which hazarded a triumph upon 
(( the carcafs of Cato.” This indeed is the flight of no 
common ^pinion ; an ordinary fancy would never have 
difeovered an analogy between the conveyance of a Prifoner 
in an Irifh Hack, from Clonakilty to Cork, attended by 
half a dozen dragoons, and the fplendid proceflion of a 
Roman triumph. As little fimilitude is difcernible in the 
chara&ers of the aiftere and unbending Roman Senator, 
and the focial and hofpitable Irifh Phyfician. It is true 
he sflimilates his friend, not to the living Cato, but to 
his inanimate carcafs, a compliment certainly very Angu¬ 
lar, but in which I can perceive nothing very flattering. 

In the commencing paragraph of the firfl Letter, Mr. 
Murphy is difmifled from his employment, and no lefs 
a man than Mr. Wickham, coniV ited “ the Gaoler of 

E 2 Cork, 

1 A * 


l 


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Cork, net I believe with any intention of injuring the 
former, but from that confufion of ideas which fo often 
leads the Writer to invert the juft order of thing?, and 
whom perhaps it would be no bad way to conftrue, as 
we do dreams, by contraries. Near the end of the fecond 
Letter, Mr. Jones is made to exprefs himfeif as follows: 

Let me, Sir, be put to the teft of a trial, found Government 
tc and fober rule, which marks the Adminiftration you 
<( act with, is not ufually fo coy, of bringing to trial a 
“ Prifoner who deports himfeif as I do; or as becoming 
w the Earl of Hardwicke and Mr. Wickham.”—And again 
at the conclufion of the third —'“ I am not compounded, 
“ Sir, of fuch flimfy materials of mind, that being de- 
cs prived of the confolations of triendfhip, or of being locked 
(C up from all human fociety from eight to eight, can fer- 
€C rate upon my fortitude, fo as to induce a change in my 
cf determination, however it may have impaired my con- 
ee ftitution, for my fleep is gone for want of habitual ex- 
e ‘ ercife, and my digeftion nearly fufpended. It is not 
“ indulgence. Sir, which I meditate upon, it is my charac- 
** ter, now for three months expofed to unrefutec^ cblo- 
«< qu)—It is my liberty which I pray for, a trial, libtru- 
* % tion, or death.” 

On a ftyle like this, it wouhi be idle to criticife. If 
fuch writing be,' in truth, the prcdu&icn of Mr. Jones’s 
pen, into what hands has the hiftory of the country 
fallen! 

Tile malignant tendency of the work under ccpfidera- 
tion, is the third thing I propefed to confider, and right glad 
thou Id I be to find it the mofit difficult part of my talk. 

1 fhoiiid rejoice at being able to impute its reprehenfible 
effufjous 10 the momentary irritation of a diftuibed and 


angry 


t 3 1 3 

angry mind. But, alas 1 every page is fo fullicd with po¬ 
etical virulence, every fentiment breathes fuch rancour and 
malignity, that it is impoffible for a good fubjeft of any 
defeription to read it without difguft and abhorrence. In 
every circumftance, however trivial, nay, in circumftances 
purely accidental, the Writer is fure to trace the baneful 
influence of Orange aflbeiation. Where fa£ts and realities 
refufe their aid, fancy and fi&ion are reforted to, to 
furnifh grounds for angry crimination. The tendency of 
fuch pafl2ges (wholly irrelevant to the proper fubjeft of 
thofe Letters) is as obvious as the intention is deteft- 
able. 

That Religious or political enmity fhould fubflft be¬ 
tween the inhabitants cf the fame country, and the fub- 
je£ls cf the fame Crown, has long been matter of deep 
regret to all Irifhmen of fenfe and moderation, but expe¬ 
rience has taught them that paflions and prejudices may 
be fubdued by gentle, but can only be inflamed by vio¬ 
lent meafures. The unhappy caufes of diflfenfion being 
now removed, the lenient operation of time will not fail 
to melt down the afperities of diftin£lion, and blend the 
different clafles into one common mafs of fentiment and of 
intereft. Towards this defirable point, we feem already 
in rapid and happy progrefflon, and I trufl that no efforts 
of infulioufnefs or intemperance will be able to retard our 
fteps. , 

The cafe of Mr. Goold, is the laft part of this curious 
cempofition, with which 1 fhall detain my Readers, and 
when fairly flared, it will be found, as, indeed, his nearefl 
friends acknowledge, to have been the juft refult of his 
imprudence. Waving the queftion of guilt or innocence, 
Mr. Jones was a ftate prifor.er under orders of ftriQ; con¬ 
finement 


. [ 32 ] 

finement iffued from the Caflle, at a time when rebellion 
had unexpectedly reared its head in the Metropolis, and 
Adminiftration confidered itfelf bound to adopt the precau¬ 
tionary meafure of apprehending fufpicious perfons. 
Mr. Goold had procured admittance into the gaol, upon 
a falfe pafTpoit, lor the pflrpofe of vifiting Mr. Jones. 
It was detected by the Turnkey, who of ccurfe, report¬ 
ed the circumftance, and I fuppofe no man jn his fenfes 
could be furprifed a: what folio wtd-r-viz. an order to ap¬ 
prehend the praCtifer of a fraud, which though it was 
harmlefs, might have been of a very. different complex¬ 
ion.—Upon its being afcertained, that imprudence was 
his only offence, the young man was liberated. Now, I 
would afk the warmeft ftickler for liberty, what rational 
ground fuch a tranfaCtion afforded for an inveCtive againft 
the tyranny of Government, or a charge of wanton 
cruelty and Catholic oppreflion ? Hear, however, the 
candid, the conciliatory , the temperate language, put into 
the mouth of the Hiftorian of Ireland, and the Champion 
of Liberality. “ This unparalleled T)ranny, this auda- 

cious infringement of the Liberty of the Subject, this 
(e confpicuous abufe of Military Power, and the Sufpen- 
“ fion of the Habeas Corpus ACt, extended to Sixteen 
“ Days , and then, forfooth, the young Gentleman, unexa- 
l( mined, unimpeached of any thing but the cr ime of being 
“ a Catholic , and of being attached to me, was, 77 (not 
ajfojpn&tedy nor yet whipped—but O moil lame and irm- 
potent conclufion !) i( liberated!’ 7 

If Government, as it is fo confidently aflerted, are in 
pofieffion of a fpecific charge againH Mr Jones, they muff 
acknowledge great obligation to the Author of thefe Let¬ 
ters, for furnifiling fuch firorg grounds lor his detention,, 
Believing them to be genuine, as they probably do, he 

' comes 


[ 33 ] 

comes in fuch a queftionable ftiape, that it is no wonder 
if they deem'a man who makes fo bad a ufe of his capti¬ 
vity, unfit to be entrufted with his freedom. In times of 
danger, the firft duty of the Statcfman is to take care, 
Ne quid detrimenti res publica capiat . That puny fpirit of 
mifchief, which in a feafon of tranquillity might be only 
defpicable, alTumes a more formidable chara&er at a crifis 
like the prefent. The fufferer, it may be faid, has a 
right to complain—truebut he has no right to falfify, 
to calumniate and to revile. Of Mr. Jones’s true Prin¬ 
ciples and real views, I do not pretend to judge. If the 
Letters under confideration, exhibit a juft pi£ture of his 
mind, he muft at leaft forfeit all claim to thofe high merits 
and liberal qualities, which fome of his admirers have fo 
plentifully beftowed upon him. I have charitably endea¬ 
voured to fave him from the inference, by maintaining that 
they are fpurious. Of the cogency of my arguments, the 
public of courfe will judge. I am fure at leaft of the 
fuffrage of his friends, who having no alternative, will 
necefifarily adopt this opinion as the only means of refcu- 
ing his literary fame from contempt, and vindicating his 
moral and political chara&er from the heavy charge of 

wilful falftiood, calumnious mifreprefentation, and mif- 

. * 1 / ' 

chievous defign. 

VINDEX. 


L/iRODUCTION 


* » 
> » > 


» . > 


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INTRODUCTION 

TO 

REPLY" TO FIND EX. 


New Prifon » near jSorkt 
Saturday nighty December lo> 1803. 

So THE ORANGEMEN could manfully countenance 
an Anonymous attack upon a Prifiner in a Gaol , and could 
as manfully exert the CLUB-INFLUENCE, of the Con- 
centrated Firm, to intimidate a Newfpaper from Publifhing 
the Prifoner’s defence.*—-As the Honed Catholic Chevalier 
Bayard was called “ the Knight without Fear, and 
without Reproach ,” fo the ORANGE JUNTO, who 
prevented this Publication, may be demondrated u the 
ic Recreants vjithout Honor and without RemcrfieP 

The following <c reply” was tendered, was received, 
was acknowledged, was detained, and was refufied Publication 
by the New Cork Evening Pofi. It now appears. Dedi¬ 
cated to the ORANGE CLUB, who le&ured one of 
the Editors of that Newfpaper, to fo good effecl. Be¬ 
tween arrogance and timidity, the PRESS and the SUB¬ 
JECT, in Cork, feem to poflefs an equal fhare of liber¬ 
ty* and an equal chance of redress. 

WILLIAM TODD JONES. 


REPLY 


<0 __ 



REFIT TO FIND EX. 


*>T* 

.1 HERE has been handed to me in my Impi ifonrpent 
a perfonal attack upon me from NOBODY—a Champion 
who commences a Combat behind the Stalking Horfe of 
a Latin-Word : and moreover I underftand, that it is the 
chef (Tceuvre of the Cork Faction, and that an 
anfwer is expected to it, or a tacit acknowledgment or 
a Defeat. 

My Antagonift is THE MAN IN THE MASK, and 
I am the Man without one ; but I do not decline the con- 
troverfy, and fhall correct the errors of Names which he 
has fuggefled.- He has difeovered that my file, like my 
Scale of Efimation in the public mind is exceedingly low ; 
and that Thomas is not Richard, and Philip not 
David : and his firlt Paragraph concludes with the very 
horrid apprehenfion that it is poflible <e I may die a Cathy 
lied 9 Thefe I think nearly cilcumfcribe the extent of hi-, 
heavy charges, and it is net for me to combat any one ot 
the above portions. 

ft 

I am alfo Impeached by the Man in the Mask, of “ an 
inventive againft the Tyranny of Government” in nay- 
detailed opprefllon of Mr. Goold; — But faulty Reporters 
require refreshed memories—It is to that very Govern¬ 
ment I am relating the treatment which he received, and 
to which, from time, it was a phyfical impoffibility the 


* See a Paper Signed Vindex—Cork Advsrtifir* 

F CaiPe 




t 3 « 3 

Caftie of Dublin could have been acceflary—nor was It 
the Exercife of delegated Authority here , which I ar¬ 
raigned, but the ahufe of it. It is well known I am pecu¬ 
liarly attached to the military Order, that my Friendlhips 
and Comrades have, of ancient time, been very generally 
there; and it has been my frequent regret, during my 
five Months Captivity, that the rigour of a General Order 
precluded me from the good company of the occafional 
Officer on guard. 

The Rev. Mr. Stewart’s Orangifm is immaterial to 
the circumftances of my “ CASE;” by the Fruit I judged 
of the Tree, and at all events to deny being one is fome 
promife of returning Grace. 

Since there is no fuch perfon as Thomas, I will fuppofe 
an ideal Richard, and as Vindex is Poetic, I will 
bellow him the chara&er for his Dramatic Model. We 
will fuppofe a Man who is boillerous, when backed by 
numbers, but of a moll delicate fenfe of danger when 
Handing alone : one who could whip a poor Lad in a 
Barrack-Yard almojl to his diJfolutiori’ y and a few years after¬ 
ward, on a Second of Augull 1803, could redoubtedly order 
two of his Satellites to hold the hands of g Young 
Gentleman, while, like another Thersites, he rifled his 
pockets: and having got fairly rid of both Son and Fa¬ 
ther, who could vapour, like an ancient Pifiol in fearch of 
Pikes , and tear up, and demojilhed a pretty flower-garden 
of fome helplefs Ladies—So black a chara&er mull be 
Eutopian, and can only exill in that u Ifland.” 

EVERY POSITION ELSE in my « CASE,” is 
granted to me, except the age of my venerable 
Friend, in which I find I was aifo right: and the pofftble 

Exillence 


[ 37 ] 

Exigence of his other Son, who, if Jiving , is beyond the 
Seas ! —Did not the man blufh, though behind his mask, 
when he fupported his attack by a fubterfuge fo mean and 
miferable! y 

<c Little Davy” is fo choice a conceit, and Vindex 
is fo vaflly comical upon the Chriftian name of my Rev, 
Friend, and rings all the changes upon it with a jocofe- 
nefs fo felf- complacent, that I marvel he did not himfeif 
aflfume the Signature of ts Dainty Davy:’’ but what 
may be a Cork Orange good joke, might feem but a grofs 
vulgarity elfewhere, and a very good joke any where, may 
be impaired by its improbability ; it is not extremely likely 
that I being ignorant of my Reverend Friend’s Chriftian 
name while writipg to the Secretary of State, fhould with 
an impertinent flippancy recoiled it at an imputed debauch ; 
a ribaldry which is as foreign to my manners, asjt would 
be inconfiftent with that deference I ever teftify, and that 
refpe&ful companion I ever feel for the Sufferings, the 
Meeknefs, and Morality of the IRISH CATHOLIC 
PRIESTHOOD. 

Though the invention may be poetic, I fhall not venture 
to pronounce it HORATIAN ; with the Horace of 
Old, I ufed fometimes to wade a morning; with any 
modern Horace, I am utterly unacquainted. 

But, alas, this jocofenefs was only the aflfumpticn of 
another mask! and the tiflfue of vituperation, and 
acrimony, “ of wilful falshood, and calum¬ 
nious misrepresentation” OF THE MAN IN 
THE MASK, in his remaining tirade of abufe, evince the 
wounded fpirit, the provoking felf-con vision, and the 
Orange Complexion of the real Vifage—and the levity 

F ^ and 


[ 38 ] 

and callous indifference with which he adverts to the Sum¬ 
mits of Mifery which a Fellow-Countryman may arrive at. 
Privation oj Liberty, or of Exifence by Execution , develcpe 
amply that SCHOOL OF TERRORISM, which pro¬ 
duced fo well-blooded a Pupil, indurated to pity, or 
juflice, by an habitual violation of both —“ ROPE— 
GAOL—CULPRIT—and GALLOWS’ 7 — run flip¬ 
pantly through his elegant production. 

MY HISTORY is poped upon us, the Lord knows 
why, or wherefore, bearing no kind of analogy with the 
fituation of a Man in Gao!—that Hiflory, it would feem 
can, though upon rumour , keep fome eyes waking and t® 
which the Supprefiion of it by the hand of Power would 
prove a felicitous Soporific!—But, alas, that opportunity 
has pafled by, and the Earl of Hardwicke will not 
be a Copyist of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Eight! 
and PRIEST O’NEIL has returned to tell his own ftory; 
and what are the poor ORANGE to do !* 

Regarding, then, that History, I will tell the MASK 
all I know, viz. that it is finifhed down to 1800, that one 
Cory is lodged with my Brother the Attorney General 
of the States of Carolina ; one Copy with Mr. Ma- 

docks, 


* This Ecclcjiaf lc fuflained an endurance of ORANGE 
TORMENTS at YoughaU from which Atilla the Scourge of 
God, would have averted his Eyes with Horror and Loathing: 
the mangled Man is now reficred, by the clemency and fenl'e 
of Juftice of Lord Hardvvicke, to his Country, and by his 
BifLop to his Station. A Refloration which I entertain no 
doubt v. ill'he gradually followed up by other Victims of that 
Sanguinajy Herd*. —row languilhing cut their Lamp of Life 
in a fjn.iLr Exile. 




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docks, an Englifh Member of Parliament; one Copy 
with a Bookfeller at Edinburgh; and one remains in my 
own pcfleflion at Dublin, to which I folicit the Subfcrip- 
tion of Vindex himfelf: as he has already Volunteered 
in becoming an Advertifer of my c( CASE,” I fhall now 
make him ferve as an Advertifer to my “ HISTORY.”— 
And fhould he be difpofed to rejoin, during my continu¬ 
ance in this Imprifonment, though I do not court the 
Colloquy, I think he will tire firft of the Correfpondence. 

NO MASK, 

BUT PLAIN 

WILLIAM TODD JONES. 

—' *— 

ANNOTATIONS. 

“ Introduction.”— If we were not already well 

apprifed of Mr. Jones’s promptitude to aflume fuppofi- 
tions for faffs, \ve fhould be fadly puzzled to account for 
the fuppreflion of his Reply, on the principles to which 
he has thought proper to afcribe it. Admitting an inter¬ 
ference with the Printer, through the channel of whofc 
Paper he defigned to beftow it on the Public—the ob¬ 
jectors to its appearance might not have been his Friend^ 
but furely they were not his enemies. 


REPLY TO FIND EX. 

a f 

J- HERE lias been handed to me,” &c. — 'That con- 
fufion of ideas imputed by VtNDEX, is curioufly exem¬ 
plified in Mr. Jones’s defeription of his antagonist,— 

FirO, 




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Firft, he is Nobody —next, he is Somebody—a Champion 
behind a ftalking-horfe, which ftalking-horfe is not a ftalk- 
ing-horfe, hut a Latin word. Then he difappears, and 
the attack of Nobody becomes the chef d'oeuvre of a Cork 
fa&ion. Afterwards he is the Man in the Mafk—next he 
is a Poet,—and, finally, he is the Afiumer of another 
Mafk. The juft reprehenfion of his former extravagance 
fhould have produced amendment, or ^SILENCE* 

“ I am alfo impeached,’’ &c.—The abufe of Power in 
the abftraft, may certainly be cenfured, without reference 
to any particular a& of authority : But in treating of a 
fpecific Cafe, it feems impoflible, under any eftablifhed 
modes of reafoning, to feparate the cxercife of Power 
from the exercifers of it.—Mr. Jones’s Logic is, indeed, 
very different from that which is taught at our Univerfi- 
ties, and generally furprifes us with conclufions the very 
reverfe of what ought to follow from his premifes. His 
Eulogium on the Civil and Military Eftablifhment may be 
a fymptom (to ufe his own words) of returning grace , but 
it is certainly rather an aukward kind of Appendix to his 
former Publication. 

“ Mr. Stewart’s Orangifm is immaterial to my 
Cafe.”—If Mr. Jones himfelf had introduced no matter 
but that which was material to his Cafe, it would have 
abridged his Letter, and made his Cafe much better.—Mr. 
Stewart’s name was firft mentioned by Mr. Jones, 
and though it might not be material to Mr. Jones’s Caje, 
it was certainly material to his Character, to have it 
known whether what he affertcd was true or Life. 

“ I vvill fuppofe an ideal Richard.” —The great Lord 
Chatham ir animadverting on an Opponent, obferved, 

N ** That 


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•* That he reforted to his imagination for Facts, and to 
his memory for Wit.”—What fund Mr. Jones may 
chufe to refort to for Wit, we are yet to learn-—but al- 
moft every paragraph fhews us from whac fource he derives 
his Fa&s. In the prefent inftance, it is true, he premifes 
that the charadter he draws is ideal, probably becaufe he 
forefaw fome danger in making dire6t charges, which he 
knew himfelf unable to fubftantiate. The circumftance, 
however, reduces him to this dilemma.—If the paffage 
under confideration be ideal, it has nothing to do with the 
bufinefs—If it be intended to convey real cenfure on a 
Gentleman for n£ts wholly immaterial to Mr. Jones’s 
Cafe, it expofes the Cenfurer to the juft imputation of 
malicious falftiood. Indeed, it is not furprifing to find a 
fertility of evil in his brain, who peoples even Eutopia 
with black characters. 

‘‘ Every pofition elfe is granted to me.”■■■ -» If this be 
granting, we would wifti to know what meaning Mr. 
Jones is pleafed to affix to the word denying ? His 
report of his venerable friend’s age is ftill maintained.— 
Mr. Jones, perhaps, reads backward, as Witches fay 
their prayers. The DoCtor may be 57—This, by one 
of his friend’s familiar tranfpofitions, can be cafily con- 
verted to 75. The fucceeding paragraph is hardly intel¬ 
ligible—If it mean that, the young man whom Mr. Jones 
chufes to have dead, may ftill be alive, we cannot fee why 
the fuppofer of his exiftence fiiould have caufe to blufh* 
This is a fign of grace we lhal! never expeCt from Mr. 
Jones. 

fC With the Horace of Old I ufed fometimes to w ajle 
a morning.”—This is an aflertion we are very willing to 
. admit in its utmoft latitude. His ftudies appear to have 

been 



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been managed with the ingenious fecrefy of the Gentle¬ 
man who told his friend in confidence, that whatever 
might be thought of his idlenefs, he did in reality read a 
vafl deal—But then, faid he, " I do it all in private, and 
Nobody 9 s the wifer 

y . ~ \ 

u I fhall now make him ferve as an Advertifer to my 
HISTORY.”—There is no occafion—his own Letters 
have done it fufficiently. He has not only advertifed the 
Work, but kindly furnifhed us with the notice that fo 
often accompanies the poor Man’s proclaiming of his 
Jade—“ I CAUTION THE PUBLIC NOT TO 
CREDIT HER.” 

And now having reached the termination of hisEpiftle, 
we take our leave of the Hiftorian, cordially acquiefcing 
in the juftice of his laft remark—That whofoever “ courts 
c< his Colloquy, will icon tire of his Correfpondence.” 

NO MASK, 

BUT 

PLAIN SENSE, 


» 

FINIS. 




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